AmCiv - Republican Ascendancy

US acquired Florida from Spain.

Monroe Doctrine

Election of John Quincy Adams

• First popular election electing Andrew Jackson.
• Birth of the Democratic Party.

Election of Abraham Lincoln--unexpected victory of the Republican Party.

• The period of Jacksonian Democracy.
• The Democratic Party controlled the American politics.

American Civil War began.

• The middle of the middle of American history.
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Battle of Gettysburg
• Battle of Vicksburg
• Battle of the Rams
• Homestead Act

• Civil War ended.
• US possessed a strong national government.
• The assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

• Election of Rutherford B. Hayes.
• France gifted the Statue of Libery to US.

Occupation of the South

Spanish-American War

Election of Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) due to the split in the Republican Party.

The Republican Party dominated the White House. A period of nondescript Republican presidents due to the rise of independent economy (businessmen, capitalists, cowboys, free market).

• 1821
• 1823
• 1825
• 1828
• 1860
• 1828-1860
• 1861
• 1863
• 1865
• 1876
• 1865-1876
• 1898
• 1912
• 1876-1912